running screensaver as background

contrasutra · 04-22-2003, 06:35 PM

So I heard that Linux can run a screensaver as your desktop wallpaper. How would I go about doing this?

Thanks.

abc249 · 04-22-2003, 07:51 PM

I would like to do that to ? Anyone KNow?

Aussie · 04-22-2003, 10:46 PM

You can do this with KDE in the background widget of the kde control center.

Brain Drop · 04-22-2003, 11:12 PM

ive been meaning to look into this, i heard something like with one of the wm's you could set a video clip as the background. but never got around to ivestigating

sandman · 04-25-2003, 11:07 PM

depending on your distro, mine is mandrake 9.1 so I would do this...
/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/endgame -root
i've only tried in fluxbox though.

abc249 · 04-26-2003, 09:28 AM

Does that work for 9.0? that's all?
I though there would be more to it than that...

killi · 04-26-2003, 12:59 PM

where is the screen savers in slackware

sandman · 04-26-2003, 01:40 PM

they may be in /usr/lib/xscreensaver

killi · 04-26-2003, 02:47 PM

contrasutra · 04-27-2003, 07:23 PM

Hey, I use that code, and it does that, but only on an X background (like if I JUST have xserver running), so if I use GNOME or KDE, that just goes on top of it.

How can I get it to work in GNOME or KDE.

Thanks.